documentaries
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‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ Tops Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards
Judd Apatow, Anthony Bourdain win television awards; Michael Moore receives Critics’ Choice Lifetime Achievement Award at ceremony in Brooklyn
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‘Minding the Gap’ Leads All Films in Nominations for Cinema Eye Honors
Other top nominees in the documentary awards include “Bisbee ’17,” “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” “Of Fathers and Sons,” “Three Identical Strangers” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
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Sorry, Oscar Documentary Voters: Your Workload Just Doubled
With 77 new films just added to the list of eligible docs, 2018’s field is edging close to last year’s record total
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Mr. Rogers Will Be Competing at the Cinema Eye Honors
In early nominations, the nonfiction film awards nominated both “RBG” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” for the Audience Choice Award, and honored Ginsburg and Rogers as unforgettable subjects
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‘Free Solo,’ ‘Minding the Gap,’ ‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ Land IDA Documentary Nominations
The top feature-film category has been beefed up to 10 nominees this year and also includes “Dark Money,” “Of Fathers and Sons,” “The Silence of Others” and “Hale County This Morning, This Evening”
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Peter Bogdanovich Says It Only Took ‘One Good Idea’ to Make His Buster Keaton Doc ‘The Great Buster’
The “Last Picture Show” director and film historian says he jumbled the chronology of his Keaton documentary because of “the old showbiz axiom, ‘Leave ’em laughing’”
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‘Free Solo’ Leads Critics’ Choice Documentary Awards Nominations
Other nominees include “RBG,” “Three Identical Strangers” and “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” — but MIchael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 11/9” was not nominated in top categories
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‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor,’ ‘Fahrenheit 11/9’ Get an Oscars Boost From DOC NYC
The documentary festival’s annual Short List, an accurate predictor of Oscars success, also includes “RBG,” “Three Identical Strangers,” “Free Solo,” “Quincy” and “Jane Fonda: A Life in Five Acts”
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Imagine Plucks HBO Veteran Sara Bernstein as Documentaries Executive Vice President
Bernstein spent 19 years at HBO, racking up 10 Emmys and two Academy Awards
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Warren Miller, Skiing Documentary Pioneer, Dies at 93
He made over 500 films in 60 years that became staples for skiiers everywhere
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Netflix Aims to Go Back-to-Back as ‘Heroin(e)’ Makes Oscars Short-Doc Shortlist
The streaming service is in the running again this year, after the documentary short “The White Helmets” gave it its first Oscar earlier this year
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How Internet Cat Videos Paved the Way for Oscar Contender ‘Kedi’
Oscar Wrap Magazine: Ceyda Torun says her documentary about the cats of Istanbul was “an ongoing process of discovery”
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Producers Guild Documentary Nominees Include ‘Jane,’ ‘City of Ghosts,’ ‘Cries From Syria’
The winner will be announced at the Producers Guild Awards on January 20, 2018
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‘Faces Places’ Directors Agnès Varda and JR Look for Fun in a ‘Disgusting’ World
Oscar Wrap Magazine: “We suffer to be in a century of so much tragedy, but should we add to the news of the bad times?” says legendary French director
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‘City of Ghosts,’ ‘Strong Island’ Lead Cinema Eye Honors Nominations
Other nominated documentaries include “Faces Places,” “Ex Libris,” “Last Men in Aleppo” and “Quest”
